Image of Francis I. and memory .
In Spain, the Franciscan iconography developed from the thirteenth century pitiful episodes from the life of St Francis of Assisi , playing in the Baroque period the limp body of the poor . It is celebrated as the closeness of his spirit to the Creator , turning it into one of the leading saints mediators. His image is multiplied in timpani and capitals, cloisters and churches in order, and reach the canvas thanks to authors such as Domenikos Theotokopoulos , El Greek .
The Baroque culture in its most magnificent , with a formal taste wonderful and very close to the popular religion , led to the creation of images and illusionism of painting a naturalist , with an evocation of the greater truth than painting . So , sculptors such as Francisco or Salcillo Luis Salvador Carmona, or painters like Francisco Zurbarán , will shape the image of the saint in prayer , meditation, with the cross or while displaying the stigmata .
goodthe authors most famous Spanish baroque art are confronted with the face and gesture Alter Christus , stimulated by the hagiographic texts known by the end of the thirteenth century, as the Legenda Maior Sancti Francisci , St. Bonaventure , or the Golden Legend , Jacopo de Voragine . This will continue in the realist tradition of classicism- l'esempio Galician sculptor José Ferreiro is significant - and come to the twentieth century , with authors such as Francisco Asorey , Galician Cambados , author of a sculpture in wood and stone of a monument made in 1926 , year of the celebration of the seventh centenary of the death of Saint Francis , in memory of the saint from Assisi pilgrimage to the tomb of St. James the Greater.
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Image of Francis I. and memory .
In Spain, the Franciscan iconography developed from the thirteenth century pitiful episodes from the life of St Francis of Assisi , playing in the Baroque period the limp body of the poor . It is celebrated as the closeness of his spirit to the Creator , turning it into one of the leading saints mediators. His image is multiplied in timpani and capitals, cloisters and churches in order, and reach the canvas thanks to authors such as Domenikos Theotokopoulos , El Greek .
The Baroque culture in its most magnificent , with a formal taste wonderful and very close to the popular religion , led to the creation of images and illusionism of painting a naturalist , with an evocation of the greater truth than painting . So , sculptors such as Francisco or Salcillo Luis Salvador Carmona, or painters like Francisco Zurbarán , will shape the image of the saint in prayer , meditation, with the cross or while displaying the stigmata .
goodthe authors most famous Spanish baroque art are confronted with the face and gesture Alter Christus , stimulated by the hagiographic texts known by the end of the thirteenth century, as the Legenda Maior Sancti Francisci , St. Bonaventure , or the Golden Legend , Jacopo de Voragine . This will continue in the realist tradition of classicism- l'esempio Galician sculptor José Ferreiro is significant - and come to the twentieth century , with authors such as Francisco Asorey , Galician Cambados , author of a sculpture in wood and stone of a monument made in 1926 , year of the celebration of the seventh centenary of the death of Saint Francis , in memory of the saint from Assisi pilgrimage to the tomb of St. James the Greater.
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